How to Win Friends, Influence People, and Bury Nuclear Waste: The decades-long stalemate on where to store U.S.

January 29, 2012 at 2:37PM by Jim DiPeso | comment There was something for everyone in a blue ribbon commission's final report about managing waste from nuclear power plants. The report , released January 26 and in such high demand that downloads crashed the commission's servers, drew praise from the Nuclear Energy Institute. And from utility organizations. And from Harry Reid, the Nevada Democrat and Senate majority leader who hates the Yucca Mountain waste repository. And from Fred Upton, the Michigan Republican and House Energy and Commerce Committee chairman who likes the Yucca Mountain waste repository. Not bad for a bipartisan commission charged with the thankless task of recommending alternatives for disposing of some 70,000 metric tons of hot stuff nobody wants in their backyard. Strike that comment. Maybe there's a community that wouldn't mind having spent nuclear...